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Ideas for 'The Elm and the Expert', 'The Problem of Knowledge' and 'Virtue Theory and Abortion'

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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

2461	An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time [Fodor]

2454	We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments [Fodor]

2455	Interrogation and experiment submit us to having beliefs caused [Fodor]

2460	Participation in an experiment requires agreement about what the outcome will mean [Fodor]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

19464

We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

2458	Theories are links in the causal chain between the environment and our beliefs [Fodor]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer]